A computer _____ is a small piece of semiconducting material integrated circuits are etched on.

• transistor
• chip
• processor
• board

CPU stands for central ____ unit.

• protection
• packet
• plasma
• processing

The ____ is the component of the processor that directs and coordinates most of the operations in the computer.

• CPU
• ALU
• control unit
• memory

The system ____ generates regular electronic pulses that set the operating pace of the system unit.

• processor

• control

• clock

• cache

Computers are only able to recognize two states of 0's and 1's known as _____.

• bytes
• the binary system
• code system
• cache

A(n) _____ is the smallest unit of data a computer can process.

• bit
• 0
• character
• digit

_____ size is the number of bits the processor can interpret and execute at a given time.

• Word
• Bus
• Byte
• Power

Each channel, called a ____, allows the various devices both inside and attached to the system unit to communicate with one another.

• cache
• processor
• bus
• byte

A ____, which is formed when 8 bits are grouped together, provides enough different combinations of 0s and 1s to represent 256 different characters.

• bit
• byte
• cache
• digit

____ is a temporary storage area of memory that stores the contents of frequently used data or instructions.

• cache
• RAM
• read-only memory (ROM)
• processor